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File:Hotel de Beauvais portes.jpg|[[Baroque architecture|Baroque]] door with Vitruvian scrolls [[frieze]]s of the [[Hôtel de Beauvais]], Paris, by [[Antoine Lepautre]], 1657-1660
File:Hotel de Beauvais portes.jpg|[[Baroque architecture|Baroque]] door with Vitruvian scrolls [[frieze]]s of the [[Hôtel de Beauvais]], Paris, by [[Antoine Lepautre]], 1657-1660

File:Vase avec des cygnes - Manufacture de Sèvres - Musée du Louvre Objets d'Art OA 11024.jpg|[[Louis XVI style]] vase with a [[medallion (architecture)|medallion]], swans and Vitruvian scrolls, by [[Jean-Baptiste-Étienne Genest]] and the [[Sèvres Porcelain Manufactory]], designed in 1766, produced in {{circa}}1767, soft-paste porcelain, Louvre


Wave scroll.jpg|[[Neoclassical architecture|Neoclasiical]] detail of a building showing the Vitruvian scroll pattern rendered in [[terra cotta]]
Wave scroll.jpg|[[Neoclassical architecture|Neoclasiical]] detail of a building showing the Vitruvian scroll pattern rendered in [[terra cotta]]

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Vitruvian scroll pattern

The Vitruvian scroll is a scroll pattern used in architectural moldings and borders in other media. It is also known as the Vitruvian wave, wave scroll, or running dog pattern.[1] The pattern resembles waves in water or a series of parchment scrolls viewed on end.

"Vitruvian" refers to the Roman architect Marcus Vitruvius Pollio ("Vitruvius"), who wrote the oldest extant book on architecture,[2] which describes some of the classical architectural orders.

See also

References

  1. ^ "Running-dog pattern". Encyclopædia Britannica. Britannica. 2013. Retrieved March 15, 2013.
  2. ^ Vitruvius, "The Ten Books on Architecture"
  3. ^ Papaioannou, Kostas (1975). L’art grec (in French). Mazenod. p. 173.